Module Common.Input

module Input: sig .. end


Input routines
val std_open_file : string -> IO.input
load a non compressed file
Returns ExtLib.IO.input channel
exception File_empty
val open_file : string -> IO.input
load a file either in gzip, bzip or not compressed format
Returns ExtLib.IO.input channel. Raise File_empty if the file is empty or fail if the file does not exist
val open_ch : Pervasives.in_channel -> IO.input
val close_ch : IO.input -> unit
val parse_uri : string ->
Url.filetypes *
(string option * string option * string option * string option * string) *
string option
parse a uri. i.e. : deb://path/to/file rpm://path/to/file cudf://path/to/file
Returns a tuple representing the uri
val guess_format : string list list -> Url.filetypes
guess the input format from a list of list of uris and check * if the list is omogenueous w.r.t the guessed format. Fails otherwise